Real life... association with Thief

massimilianogoi on 13/7/2009 at 10:59

What game is it?

clearing on 13/7/2009 at 11:02

This is HDR photo.

massimilianogoi on 13/7/2009 at 12:00

It seems The Dark Mod.

Saturnine on 13/7/2009 at 12:48

Quote Posted by jtr7

I haven't seen Carleton outside of T1/TG/T2.

Did you ever see any of the remakes of the outer limits? the main titles and credits for that were carleton :)

jtr7 on 13/7/2009 at 20:47

Nice! I'll certainly notice when I see it. I watched that series before I played Thief, and it's also a nice connection, even if unintended.

seventyfour on 13/7/2009 at 21:15

Quote Posted by clearing

This is HDR photo.

Are you talking about this photo?
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3419/3293681157_5e33568e1f_b.jpg) http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3419/3293681157_5e33568e1f_b.jpg
It looks definitely like a computer generated image for me.
Look carefully, the wall texture is repeating, the edges is unnaturally sharp, the lighting is unnatural, you can see visible seams across some surfaces etc.

It do use a technique called (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_rendering) High Dynamic Range rendering, but that's not the same as (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging) HDR photography.

clearing on 17/7/2009 at 05:33

Inline Image:

http://goldthief.strana.germany.ru/Medievalcastle.jpg

Petike the Taffer on 17/7/2009 at 09:15

Inline Image:

http://www.fototime.com/4808C30DEF70772/orig.jpg

A British trench mace/maul from WWI. As you can see, it has a gear-like head... :)

massimilianogoi on 17/7/2009 at 11:35

Damn! Is fu**ing scaring! I cannot think to what consequences has a hit with a thing like this in the head.

Petike the Taffer on 17/7/2009 at 11:49

Quote Posted by massimilianogoi

Damn! Is fu**ing scaring! I cannot think to what consequences has a hit with a thing like this in the head.

Of course. ;)

It's pretty symbolic that simple melee weapons like these were still used in the first world war - the era was really a mix of traditional and modern military equipment. A club like this was ideal for beating the living daylights out of an unfortunate trench garrison. It was even more practical than bayonets, which were used more for psychological effect than anything else... I read that some soldiers even put their field shovels to great use during trench raids - they just sharpened them and bludgeoned the poor adversaries. :eww: :erm: